Chapter 88

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Protagonist:

Chai Mi

Chai Youqing has emotions...

In Chai Mi's view, this is a good thing.

Although Chai Youqing's current situation isn't particularly intense, and his reaction isn't particularly excited, this is ultimately a relatively good state.

Otherwise, if the family produced a "rebellious son," these days would be impossible to get through.

Chai Mi isn't very good at comforting people either; she simply said a few sentences to Chai Youqing: "Dad, you don't need to hold a grudge against my Grandmother... after all, you can't win a grudge against her."

In fact, the things Chai Youqing doesn't know, and the things he has yet to experience, are still many.

Reporting Chai Youqing for stealing wood is just child's play.

What if they report Chai Youqing for having an unauthorized child?

Chai Mi knows perfectly well in her heart; these guys, not a single one is a good thing!

But the situation is just like this; Chai Mi's younger sister Chai Xin is the unauthorized child...

Although Reform and Opening-up has already happened, and management isn't particularly strict anymore, the fines that should be levied still have to be levied.

Besides, the several plots of land Chai Youqing cleared weren't allocated by the village; say they're reasonable and they're reasonable, say they're unreasonable and they're unreasonable.

Chai Mi pondered doing two things these few days: one is to go down and incite Second Aunt Song Qiuping to come out and fight a battle with the Old Man; the second is to go take a look at Village Chief Liu Changgui's house — she's been troubling them constantly lately, so she ought to show some gesture herself.

"Your grandfather is still alive." Chai Youqing suddenly blurted out this sentence.

This sentence nearly made Chai Mi cough up blood in anger...

"As for the past events, don't play dumb; you know perfectly well about the fake will!" Leaving this sentence behind, Chai Mi departed.

Chai Youqing gave a wry laugh.

Regarding the matter of the fake will during the family split, he didn't know at the time, but afterward he found it abrupt and somewhat suspicious, and he had suspicions.

But as the eldest son, he couldn't very well speak up.

If he spoke out, people would laugh at him.

Recently he hasn't been deaf either; the village has been full of such rumors, saying that back when the Chai family split, they made a fake will and forced Chai Youqing out — Chai Youqing heard it all clearly.

Since everyone says so, this matter is eight or nine parts out of ten true.

Now that Chai Mi has said it, Chai Youqing helplessly shook his head; in the end, he still couldn't get past that hurdle in his heart.

He originally wanted to go to the old residence and ask Wang Huirong, but now that Father isn't home, it's not too appropriate for him to go directly; he thought for a while, then felt going himself wouldn't be of much use either, so he took his hoe and went to look at that plot of land by the Hexi side.

Many of the seedlings in the field had been pulled out by Chai Dajun, and these past two days the weather has been hot again; they had long since withered. Looking at the withered yellow little seedlings on the ground, Chai Youqing felt awful.

At this critical juncture, going to sow seeds again and grow seedlings anew — even if everything goes normally — would cause a severe yield reduction, and might even result in total crop failure.

Autumn in the Northeast comes early. Generally, corn's growth cycle takes over five months; after the Mid-Autumn Festival, once the weather turns cold, the crops will freeze and shed leaves — even if the crops aren't ripe, they're basically ruined.

By the time Frost's Descent arrives, they'll be frozen to death completely.

Right now it's only a little over two months until autumn; planting corn definitely won't make it in time.

Chai Youqing thought for a while, returned home, borrowed a bicycle, and went to town to buy some small-seed sunflowers. His own bicycle had been smashed by Chai Mi's several uncles; last time he had to carry the bicycle back on his shoulder, so he could only borrow a bicycle to use.

After returning, Chai Youqing was also afraid that if he used the old ox to plow the field Chai Mi would disagree, so he had to take his hoe, carry the seeds, and go dig holes to plant seeds.

This is physical labor — one seed, one hole. Chai Youqing just repeated these movements: dig hole, plant seed, finally go to the river with water buckets to fetch some water and water them, busy as can be.